Like most horror games, Perception is kind enough to leave a flashlight lying around for you: it’s a sensible tool for exploring a shadowy old house,...
Love it or hate it, nostalgia drives pop culture these days. Studios make loads of money off long-dead franchises featuring transforming cars and turtles who ninja....
There's a nasty stereotype that male gamers are unable to talk to women, with the outdated image of the unwashed and underdeveloped nerd shuffling his feet...
The game doesn’t feel finished at times, with plenty of bugs pervading the experience from start to finish. Hopefully these issues can be addressed in the...
A group of teens head to their cabin in the woods looking for a holiday of sex, drugs, and alcohol, only to be terrorized by some...
Horror, as genres go, is incredibly nuanced and complicated. It’s also incredibly easy to put in a box or dumb down, reducing something complex to simple...
35 years later, David Cronenberg's "Videodrome" remains a uniquely horrifying modern classic.
Diving back into the world of PS2 Japanese exclusive horror games reveals quite a few hidden gems, which were understandably but disappointingly never localized. One such...
Growing up it’s likely that you had that neighbor. The one who’s lawn you prayed the ball never landed on, whose lights were never turned on, and...
The Woods is a serious horror short film which — coming from a comedic and oftentimes rather off the wall YouTube channel — seems a little strange, but...
The uncanny valley, a sociocultural phenomenon first hypothesized by Masahiro Mori, proposes “that a person’s response to a humanlike robot would abruptly shift from empathy to...
I can’t think of many PlayStation 2 games out there that command the same collector’s price tag that Rule of Rose does. This game is a...
Editor’s Note: There are no spoilers in this article. **** Last summer, Stranger Things took the world by storm. Season 1 received widespread critical and popular acclaim, and...
Tom Watches Movies Yeon Sang-ho’s’s Train to Busan has been turning heads since its release last year, garnering praise as one of the better zombie movies...
The Evil Within 2 has a lot to offer, but in a year with so many great games, and several other acclaimed horror titles like Outlast 2 and Resident...
2017 for the most part has been filled with some fantastic games, and horror has really taken genre-related strides this year. Friday the 13th, Dead by...
In 2013 Shinji Mikami returned to the genre he helped define with his spiritual successor to the Resident Evil franchise: The Evil Within. By many accounts, it was...
Happy Death Day is unusual for a high-concept slasher film in that it’s essential for viewers to know the film’s gimmick from the start; those who...
Despite its popularity, the Cthulhu mythos is more often used as reference material in games rather than a direct source. There have been titles that use...
Masterful horror isn’t about constantly jump-scaring the player, or about ear-destroying audio clips that make you wince, despite what the current state of the genre might...
